Online course on Embedded Systems-MODULE -3: Kit Installation

MODULE -3: Kit Installation

Important Note: EE Herald has now (from October 2012) published embedded systems design practice using latest kits from ST Microelectronics and NXP Semiconductors based on the popular ARM Cortex M0 processor core. The old AME 51 kit explained from next paragraph in this module is not avaialable in the market now. We strongly recommend not to use AME 51 kit, instead read our module3b based on ARM Cortex M0 powered ST MIcro's Disocvery kit and and module3a based on ARM Cortex M0 powered NXP LPCXpresso kit to get into practical learning of embedded systems programming.

Place your board at a convenient place next to your PC.
Plug in 5V DC adapter to CPU board. Ensure your 5V DC power supply plug's center pin is positive and it should be of size 2.1 mm. Also make sure your 5V DC adapter current rating is 1Amp.
Connect the provided serial cable from your PC's serial port to the board serial port UART0
There is an 8 position DIP switch to tell the board what to do.
Board can go into four operating modes through four different configurations of the switch.
Here is the switch position table for the four modes.

SW1

Serial Flash Program

Stand-alone

JTAG debug

SRAM debug

FWJ

OFF

OFF

OFF

OFF

ROMSEL

X

ON

ON

ON

EXBUSE

X

ON

ON

ON

EXIROME

OFF

OFF

OFF

OFF

BOOT1

OFF

OFF

ON

ON

BOOT0

ON

OFF

OFF

OFF

BOOTCLK

X

X

X

X

JTAGE

X

X

ON

X

X - Dont care (can be either Off or On)

Default set position is stand-alone mode. If not in stand-alone mode, set it to stand-alone mode.

Installation of software part (compiler):

Load the CD provided in the kit into your PC's CD ROM drive and look for ame51setup.exe and double click to install. Follow the easy instructions and complete the installation. It's must to install it on C drive to avoid the complexity of changing root setting in the makefiles.

Unzip the file ttermp23 and extract them to a folder. In the unzipped files click setup.exe to install Tera Term Terminal Emulator software. Follow the simple instructions and complete the installation.

This software will only work on following Operating Systems
Windows XP professional
Windows 2000 with service pack 1 installed
Windows 98 second edition

At this stage both hardware and software installation is complete.

Important Note: EE Herald has now (from October 2012) published embedded systems design practice using latest kits from ST Microelectronics and NXP Semiconductors based on the popular ARM Cortex M0 processor core. The old AME 51 kit installation explained above in this module is not avaialable in the market now. We strongly recommend not to use AME 51 kit, instead read our module3b based on ARM Cortex M0 powered ST MIcro's Disocvery kit and and module3a based on ARM Cortex M0 powered NXP LPCXpresso kit to get into practical learning of embedded systems programming.

Totally EEHerald plan to bring 12 modules. You can be assured of completing basic course in Embedded Systems after studying and practicing exercises in all the modules. We will give priority to programming and serial communications (SPI, USB, CAN etc..) part. To receive a copy of total course syllabus, please email to us.

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